GCOR Study Guide 2024/2025 Questions with Complete
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How are rules issued?
1.3.1 - Correct Answers By track bulletin, general order, or special instructions.
What are Train and Engine employee's responsibilities regarding general orders, circulars,
instructions, and notices?
1.3.2, 1.3.3 - Correct Answers Must review and understand general orders that apply to the territory
they will work on.
Who is responsible for cooperating and assisting in carrying out rules and regulations and reporting
any violations, misconduct or negligence?
1.4 - Correct Answers All crew members
When are employees prohibited from having any measurable alcohol or prohibited substances in
their bodily fluids?
1.5 - Correct Answers When on company property, when reporting for duty, and while on duty.
When are over-the-counter or prescription drugs allowed to be used by employees while on duty or
on company property?
1.5 - Correct Answers When used as prescribed and permitted by a medical practitioner, and that
medication does not adversely affect safe performance of duties.
Who is responsible for the safety and protection of their train and the observance of the rules?
1.47 - Correct Answers The conductor and the engineer.
When there is more than one crewmember in the engine control compartment, what must they
communicate to each other?
1.47 C - Correct Answers 1. The names of signals affecting their train.
2. Any restrictions or other known conditions that affect the safe operation of their train.
What required information must be given when transmitting or acknowledging a radio
communication?
2.2 - Correct Answers Required identification, including:
, The name or initials of the railroad, train name or number, engine number, or words that identify the
precise mobile unit.
If an employee receives a radio call must that call be acknowledged?
2.8 - Correct Answers Yes, unless it is unsafe to do so.
What situation would require a radio transmission to begin with the words "emergency, emergency,
emergency"?
2.10 - Correct Answers Derailments, collisions, storms, washouts, fires, track obstructions,
emergency brake applications, overrunning limits of authority, and overrunning stop indications.
When would it be permissible for a train crew to tell another train crew the indication of a fixed
signal?
2.12 - Correct Answers If the information is needed to warn of an emergency.
Who may copy a mandatory directive?
2.14 - Correct Answers Any employee not operating the controls of moving engine.
Who has to have a copy of a mandatory directive?
2.14 - Correct Answers The conductor and engineer.
Which crew members of a train must read and understand mandatory directives?
2.14 - Correct Answers All crewmembers.
How would the following be stated and repeated during the transmission of a mandatory directive?
"AMTK 123 west, do not exceed 10 mph between MP 8 and MP 9.5."
2.14 - Correct Answers A - M - T - K west, do not exceed 10, one-zero, mph, between milepost nine,
N-I-N-E, and milepost 9.5, nine decimal five.
When is use of ANY electronic device prohibited?
2.21 - Correct Answers When such use would risk distracting an employee from a safety related task.
Who must know which moves will be made by radio communication?
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How are rules issued?
1.3.1 - Correct Answers By track bulletin, general order, or special instructions.
What are Train and Engine employee's responsibilities regarding general orders, circulars,
instructions, and notices?
1.3.2, 1.3.3 - Correct Answers Must review and understand general orders that apply to the territory
they will work on.
Who is responsible for cooperating and assisting in carrying out rules and regulations and reporting
any violations, misconduct or negligence?
1.4 - Correct Answers All crew members
When are employees prohibited from having any measurable alcohol or prohibited substances in
their bodily fluids?
1.5 - Correct Answers When on company property, when reporting for duty, and while on duty.
When are over-the-counter or prescription drugs allowed to be used by employees while on duty or
on company property?
1.5 - Correct Answers When used as prescribed and permitted by a medical practitioner, and that
medication does not adversely affect safe performance of duties.
Who is responsible for the safety and protection of their train and the observance of the rules?
1.47 - Correct Answers The conductor and the engineer.
When there is more than one crewmember in the engine control compartment, what must they
communicate to each other?
1.47 C - Correct Answers 1. The names of signals affecting their train.
2. Any restrictions or other known conditions that affect the safe operation of their train.
What required information must be given when transmitting or acknowledging a radio
communication?
2.2 - Correct Answers Required identification, including:
, The name or initials of the railroad, train name or number, engine number, or words that identify the
precise mobile unit.
If an employee receives a radio call must that call be acknowledged?
2.8 - Correct Answers Yes, unless it is unsafe to do so.
What situation would require a radio transmission to begin with the words "emergency, emergency,
emergency"?
2.10 - Correct Answers Derailments, collisions, storms, washouts, fires, track obstructions,
emergency brake applications, overrunning limits of authority, and overrunning stop indications.
When would it be permissible for a train crew to tell another train crew the indication of a fixed
signal?
2.12 - Correct Answers If the information is needed to warn of an emergency.
Who may copy a mandatory directive?
2.14 - Correct Answers Any employee not operating the controls of moving engine.
Who has to have a copy of a mandatory directive?
2.14 - Correct Answers The conductor and engineer.
Which crew members of a train must read and understand mandatory directives?
2.14 - Correct Answers All crewmembers.
How would the following be stated and repeated during the transmission of a mandatory directive?
"AMTK 123 west, do not exceed 10 mph between MP 8 and MP 9.5."
2.14 - Correct Answers A - M - T - K west, do not exceed 10, one-zero, mph, between milepost nine,
N-I-N-E, and milepost 9.5, nine decimal five.
When is use of ANY electronic device prohibited?
2.21 - Correct Answers When such use would risk distracting an employee from a safety related task.
Who must know which moves will be made by radio communication?
